What are Physical Properties

Author: Daly C.1

Source: Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 79, Number 3, September 1998 , pp. 196-217(22)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Abstract:

This paper concerns an issue in the metaphysics of properties. The issue is: what are physical properties? What distinguishes physical properties from all other properties? My conclusions will be `downbeat'. I will argue that some major recent approaches to this issue prove unsatisfactory, and that the issue is much more intractable than has widely been supposed. The moral I draw is that there is no principled and well-defined distinction between physical properties and all other properties, and accordingly certain programmes in metaphysics should be abandoned because they mistakenly assume that there is such a distinction.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Department of Philosophy, Keele University

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